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Restaurant Association Benefits.

Southbay Restaurant Association benefits include supplier discounts, discounted group insurance rates, industry experienced legal counsel, code compliance assistance, employment issues assistance, Internet and Domain Name assistance & More.

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Restaurant News.
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The Southbay Restaurant Association regularly provides updates on the latest news affecting the Southbay restaurant industry. This includes National restaurant strategy, design trends, food trends and alerts as to issues if importance.

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Legislation and
Lobbying.

The SBRA regularly provides updates on the latest news affecting the Southbay restaurant industry. This includes National restaurant strategy, design trends, food trends, employmet issues, data & privacy concerns and alerts as to issues of importance.

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About Us...and why you belong.

The Southbay Restaurant Association is made up of a collection of the Southbay's most successful and prestigious restaurant owners and staff. We focus upon current legislation effecting our industry as well as and business opportunities available to our members. Our regular meetings spotlight service providers, vendors and others that serve our members on a daily basis. Our news brief - Ketchup - focuses upon issues important to the South Bay Restaurant community.

Membership. Your Invitation.

With new restaurants joining every day the Southbay Restaurant Association is quickly becoming the premier restaurant association of the Southbay and a key element of success. Members have access to business, industry and legal resources utilized by some of the area's strongest and longest standing restaurants and restraunt service companies. Members are elligible for commercial discounts group rates and more.  By displaying the SBRA display card or window sticker our members show their commitment to excellence and to the Southbay community. 


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Ketchup - Restaurant Industry News

The Southbay's Restaurant and Food News

  • Packaged Foods Labeling: Small Business Exemption

    The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires packaged foods and dietary supplements to bear nutrition labeling unless they qualify for an exemption ( A complete description of the requirements). One exemption, for low-volume products, applies if the person claiming the exemption employs fewer than an average of 100 full-time equivalent employees and fewer than 100,000 units of that product are sold in the United States in a 12-month period. To qualify for this exemption the person must file a notice annually with FDA. Note that low volume products that bear nutrition claims do not qualify for an exemption of this type.

  • Menu Labeling Requirements: 

    The FDA issued the menu labeling final rule on December 1, 2014. Industry, trade and other associations, including the restaurant and grocery industry, have asked for an additional year to comply with the menu labeling final rule, beyond the original December 2015 compliance date. In July, the FDA issued a statement stating that it agrees additional time is necessary for the agency to provide further clarifying guidance to help facilitate efficient compliance across all covered businesses and for covered establishments to come into compliance with the final rule. With this statement, the FDA formally extended the compliance date for the menu labeling rule to December 1, 2016, for those covered by the rule.

  • Manhattan Beach Tops GQ's Best Beach for Food List.

    July issue of GQ magazine has named Manhattan Beach "America’s Best Beach for Chowing Down. Manhattan Beach was given its prize along with five other beaches across America, including Sullivan’s Island in Charleston, S.C.; Lake Michigan in Chicago; Canon Beach in Oregon; Fort Tilden in New York; and Hanalei Bay in Kauai, Hawaii. 


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